Strongman

Word STRONGMAN
Character 9
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Definitions and meanings of "Strongman"

What do we mean by strongman?

A powerful, influential political figure who exercises leadership and control by force. noun

One who performs feats of strength, as at a circus. noun

A performer who demonstrates feats of strength. noun

A man who competes in contests of physical strength. noun

A forceful or brutal person, usually applied to a ruler or tyrant. noun

A man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus noun

A powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence noun

Someone who performs feats of strength, sometimes in competitions or in a circus.

A forceful or brutal person, usually a ruler or tyrant.

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The word "strongman" in example sentences

But let’s step back for a moment: how far have we fallen when a leftist Latin American strongman is more persuasive in the international arena than the freaking President of the United States? ❋ Unknown (2005)

Kremlin strongman Gordon Brown has once again shown the world that he's not a man to be messed with. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He is no Baltasar Garzón, the flamboyant, media-hungry Spanish magistrate who sought the extradition of Chile's Augusto Pinochet on charges that the Latin American strongman had Spaniards tortured and killed — and who is now weighing a possible case against some top Bush administration lawyers who gave advice clearing the way for the alleged torture of terror suspects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Proof that the odd strongman is often preferable to the alternative. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So the question of whether Bush should have installed a strongman is mute – it is like wondering what would happen if Bush could raise people from the dead. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Fresh from nationalizing almost every capitalist enterprise that yields a profit (or used to anyway), Latin American strongman Hugo Chávez has found a new class enemy: golf. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The last thing Mexico needs is its own Chavez, an economic illiterate and Latin strongman in the socialist mold. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Adding his own twist to the Latin American strongman railing against American policies, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras began talking to journalists on Tuesday. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Latin American strongman, his blond wife at his side, addresses the enraptured masses from the balcony of a presidential palace. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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